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The SoSAFE! Tools (together with SoSAFE! User Training) provide teachers, trainers and counsellors with skills and simple visual tools to enhance the social, social-sexual and social safety training of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability.

SoSAFE! uses a standardised framework of symbols, visual teaching tools and concepts to teach strategies for moving into intimate relationships in a safe and measured manner, and provides visual communication tools for reporting physical or sexual abuse.

Tools and Resources

Powerful visual and conceptual toolsSoSAFE! Tools and Resources

Close friend

Call my OK Helper

No Consent

Private

Special Hug

Change Clothes

SoSAFE! tools are designed on the basis of best special education practice to reduce vulnerability to sexual abuse, and improve the quality of social life of people with a moderate to severe intellectual disability.

"Most services are telling me they are already seeing the benefits and are using the concepts in their everyday workings at the factories and in unrelated training. #good start."

"The Program is a great resource. We loved using the sentence frames and choral responding for teaching ‘friends’ and ‘close friends’. We used a powerpoint presentation to teach this, and spent a lot of time teaching the pictograph as well as the definition"
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Special Education Teacher

"As a doctor and parent of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, I found the SoSAFE! Workshop and Manual well researched, sensibly presented and very informative. It is perfectly designed to educate children & adults with an intellectual disability (some of the most vulnerable members of our society) on how to be socially safe in many different social & life situations. Thanks for such a brilliant program."

General Practitioner, Australia

"Our Organisation remains committed to the Program, and to promoting the values and principles that underpin it. We continue to receive a positive response from training participants, and I believe SoSAFE! continues to contribute positively to improved practice in education, training and support/care provision to children, young people and adults with disabilities in our community" #Excellent